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Patented July 7, `1925.

UNITED STATES CHARLES W. PAGE, OF CATHLAMET, WASHINGTON.

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Application filed October 10, 1922. Serial No. 593,634.

To all lwhom, t may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES V..PAGE, a citizen of the United States, residing at Cathlamet, in the county of lahkiakum and State of Washington, have invented new and useful Improvements in DoorOperating Mechanisms, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to mechanism for operating doors, and more particularly the doors of automobiles and other motor vehicles, the object of `the invention being to provide a simple and eiicientmeans which automatically throws open the doorV when the latch thereof is retracted.

lith the object stated in view, the invent-ion consists in a novel combination and arrangement of parts to be hereinafter described and claimed, and in order that the same may be better understood, reference is had to the accompanying drawing, wherein Figure 1 is an elevation of the door viewed from the inside of the car; Fig. 2 is an enlarged fragment of the door with parts broken away to show the latch, and Figs. 3 and 4 are sections on the lines 3-v-3, and /l, respectively, of Fig. 2.

Referring specifically to .the drawing, 5 denotes the side of the car body to which the door 6 is applied. The edge of the door opening has a keeper recess 7 for a slidable latch bolt 8 carried by the door. This latch bolt is mounted in a housing 9 between guide ribs 10 therein, and it is) backed by a spring 11 which constantly urges it forwardly.

The latchv bolt 8 is provided with two separate operating means.' One of these means is a hand lever 12 fulcrumed at 13 in the housing 9 and projecting at one end from the top edge of the door, its other end seating in a notch 14 in the top edgeof the bolt. The door and the bolt housing are suit-ably apertured at the top so that the lever may protrude from the top edge of the door. The other latch-operating means is a lever 15 fulcrumed at 16 in the housing 9.-

One end of this lever seats in a recess 17 in the side of the bolt, and its other end has a laterally extending foot piece 18 which projects through a curved slot 19 in the door so that it is located alongside the inner `face of the door for operation by thecanoccupants foot.

It will be evident from the `foregoing that the door latch bolt 8 may be' retracted byv either the hand-operatedv lever 12 or the foot-operated lever 15.

When vthe latch bolt 8 has been retracted to release the door 6, thelatter is Aautomatically thrown open by a spring-backed push button 20, the spring thereof 'beine' shown at 21. This button and its spring are enclosed in a housing 22 mounted on the outer face of the door 6 in such a positionthat the button may bear against the outer face of the car body 5 close to the dooropening, the housing having an aperture through! which the button protrudes.'

Then the door 6 is closed, the spring 21 is compressed as the button 2O contacts with the car body 5 and is thereby pushed back into the housing 22. It will, therefore, be evident that when the latch bolt 8 is retracted to release the door, the latter is auto-p matically thrown open by the pressure of the spring-pressed button against the car body. y

The device is simple, in construction and etlicient in operation, and it is also reversible so that it can be applied to either a rightvor left-hand door.

I claim: y

The combination with a door, ofa springn actuated bolt carried Vthereby and having a notch, a hand operated lever carried by said door and extending into said notch for con-.

trolling said bolt, said bolt being 'provided' with a recess, a second lever carried by said door and received in said recess ofthe bolt, the lower portion of said doorrbeing provided with an arcuate slot, and a Vlaterally projecting foot engaged portion carried by saidA second lever and extending through said arcuate slot whereby the same may be operated from one side of the door and at a point adjacent the lower endr of the door.

In testimony whereof I affix mysignature.

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